"The First Five-Year Development Plan of the Xia Kingdom" agriculture chapter

The development of agriculture is very important to the Xia Kingdom, the people take food as the sky, without food to eat, human beings will starve to death, in order to get enough food, human beings will wage wars, and even eat people, unscrupulous means to obtain food to live.

The agricultural development of the Xia Kingdom was mainly manifested in two aspects, namely the area of cultivated land and seeds.

With the increasing population of the Xia country, the Xia country also needs to reclaim more land to meet the food needs of all the citizens of the Xia country, but there is a limit to increasing the cultivated land area - the number of cities.

Limited by the scope of human activities, it is impossible for the citizens of Xia to leave their cities too far away to cultivate farmland, so that a lot of time is wasted on walking in a day, which is not good for agriculture, so the area of farmland outside each city in Xia is also numerous, and only by increasing the number of cities can the farmland area be continuously expanded.

Su Yan thought about a way to increase the area of farmland without increasing the number of cities, that is, to establish villages with a population of less than 1,000 in areas far away from cities, and to cultivate farmland around the villages as units.

The method of establishing a village is indeed a good way to increase the area of farmland, but Su Yan thought about it carefully but saw the disadvantages of this method.

Each city in the Xia Kingdom can be taken out to exist alone, and everyone in each city divides labor with each other to do different things, there are schools, there are Salesian homes, there are hospitals, there are granaries, there are carpenters, and each city has a population of at least 5,000, which is enough for the city to withstand most things.

However, a village has a maximum population of 1,000, and it is possible to build a medical center in the village, but it is impossible to have a school, a Salesian home, etc., and the children in the village must go to the city if they want to go to school, and they can only go home during the holidays.

Most of the adults in the village are men and women weaving, and only a few are engaged in carpenters, potters and other occupations.

More importantly, the village is far away from the city, and once it is attacked by the enemy, it is difficult for the village to resist the enemy with its own force.

The method of building a village in an area far from the city is not completely impossible, and other factors need to be considered, waiting until the Xia Kingdom sweeps away the tribes in the surrounding area in the future, when the Xia Kingdom has enough labor force to build roads on a large scale, and when the Xia State has enough horses for everyone to quickly pass on land, then it is possible to build villages outside the city.

At present, the farmland area of Xia is indeed limited by the number of cities, but the restriction is not too serious, after all, with the increase in the population of Xia Kingdom, the number of cities will also increase, before the Xia Kingdom at most three new cities per year, with the rapid increase in the population of Xia Kingdom, there may be four new cities, five cities or even more cities every year.

As the population increases, the demand for food increases, and there is a need for a certain amount of living space, and the new city can meet both of these things.

The only thing that could temporarily build a village was the number of horses, and both carriage and horse riding allowed people to travel a longer distance at a certain time, and they could cultivate farmland farther away from the city.

A sufficient number of horses can increase the area of farmland, and horse-drawn plows can also be used to speed up the rate of cultivating farmland, so the Xia Kingdom needs many, many horses, and it is imperative to build a city on the edge of the grassland.

For the time being, the area of farmland will be left to the point of focusing on the city and horses, and the rest will be the matter of crop seeds, which have two directions of development, one is to cultivate high-yield crop seeds, and the other is to increase the variety of crops.

Let's talk about the latter first, there are not many types of crops in Xia Kingdom, in other words, there are not many types of grain and vegetables, such as rice, mustard greens, leeks, etc.

Increasing the variety of crops can only be done slowly, and it can be found from other tribes or in the wild, which takes a lot of time.

Cultivating high-yield crop seeds, which is another good way to increase crop yield in addition to increasing farmland area, for many years, a group of "planters" and "cultivators" have appeared in the Ministry of Agriculture of Xia Kingdom, constantly trying to breed new varieties of crops, high-yield crops are only one aspect, and crops such as lodging resistance and disease resistance.

It takes time to increase the variety of crops, and it also takes time to cultivate new varieties of crops, or the time is uncertain, so the development of agriculture is still mainly based on increasing the area of cultivated land, and it can also be said that agriculture relies on other projects to develop.

The end of the agriculture chapter, after the agriculture chapter, there are also medicine, education, and culture, Su Yan thought about it and crossed out the medicine and education chapters, with the current situation of Xia Guo, the development of medicine and education is not an overnight thing, there is no need to blindly set a lofty goal for the two, and it is the right way to do it step by step.

Culture

There is no doubt that culture is very important to the Xia Kingdom, language, writing, beliefs, etc. are all included in the culture, and a common and significant culture is more conducive to the centripetal force of the people towards the Xia Kingdom.

Under normal circumstances, the cultural chapter should be divided into three chapters: mythology, history and reality, but the history of the Dragon Tribe and the Xia Kingdom is relatively short, as the founder and ruler of the Dragon Tribe and the Xia Kingdom, Su Yan is in middle age, and there is still a long way to go in life.

Mythology is fictional, but it is also an indispensable one, it is completely possible to attribute the belief of human beings to mythology, and construct a myth and legend belonging to the Xia Kingdom, Su Yan does not need to copy the previous life, what Pangu opened the world, what Nuwa created people.

Under the leadership of Su Yan, the Dragon Tribe and the current Xia Kingdom, although each clan has different belief carriers, everyone has recognized that the god that their clan believes in is the incarnation of the dragon god, they believe in the incarnation of the dragon god, and they believe in the dragon god even more.

The dragon god is the god of creation, who created the planet of this world and created all things on the planet, and human beings were originally ordinary members of all things, struggling to survive on the planet...... On this day, human beings became the patrons of the dragon god, and the "king" came to the world as the messenger of the dragon god, teaching grains, passing on medical skills, burning bricks, building buildings, and building cities, leading the human race to rise on the earth......

With the Dragon Tribe and Xia Guo as the center, compile a myth and legend that conforms to itself, Xia Guo has become the orthodoxy of the human race, Su Yan is a real existence, and will also appear in myths and legends, and after hundreds of years and thousands of years, Su Yan's existence is a real legend.

The reality continues to develop on the basis of mythology, language, writing, festivals, etc., forming a unique cultural system of the Xia Kingdom, as long as you accept the culture of the Xia Kingdom, you can be counted as Xia people.